Re: [dmarc-ietf] Formal specification, URI

2015-03-16 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Mon 16/Mar/2015 05:17:37 +0100 Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: > On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Alessandro Vesely wrote: > >> This seems to be a bug: >> >> OLD: >> dmarc-uri = URI [ "!" 1*DIGIT [ "k" / "m" / "g" / "t" ] ] >>; "URI" is imported from [URI]; comm

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Formal specification, URI

2015-03-16 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Alessandro Vesely writes: > If the spec is going to be read by ignorants like me, it's better > to repeat than to omit. -1. It's good that you read the spec, but that's not the primary purpose of the spec. It's a bad idea to repeat definitions clearly stated in another document (even in infor

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Formal specification, URI

2015-03-16 Thread ned+dmarc
> Alessandro Vesely writes: > > If the spec is going to be read by ignorants like me, it's better > > to repeat than to omit. > -1. It's good that you read the spec, but that's not the primary > purpose of the spec. It's a bad idea to repeat definitions clearly > stated in another document (e

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Formal specification, URI

2015-03-16 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 3:51 AM, Alessandro Vesely wrote: > > Section 2.2 of RFC3986 lists semi-colon as a reserved character that has > to > > be percent-encoded in these URLs. We don't need to repeat it here, I > think. > > If the spec is going to be read by ignorants like me, it's better to r

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Formal specification, URI

2015-03-16 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 12:22 PM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: > Your question is "Are they equivalent?" I believe they are. Although it > might be ideal to have a specification so tight that there's exactly one > way to do something, in the end I don't think it's harmful to have two ways > to sa

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Formal specification, URI

2015-03-16 Thread Steven M Jones
On 03/16/2015 12:22 PM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: > [...] > > The goal in allowing a comma-separated list of URLs is that you might > conceivably want to put an http and a mailto URL in there, in the "try > A first, then try B" sense. We need to allow for that possibility. > We also need to acco

Re: [dmarc-ietf] Formal specification, URI

2015-03-16 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Steven M Jones wrote: > Just to be explicit, it also allows for multiple mailto: URIs - > something that is seen "in the wild," though perhaps not if one looks up > a half dozen DMARC records at random. But at the end of January multiple > mailto: URIs could be s